r/Starlink

This is a very weird one, any advice would be awesome.

Last year I disconnected all hardware, put them in storage and canceled my service. To this day my old starlink wifi still shows up in our house with a very strong signal, even on new computers and phones that never were using that wifi in the first place.

When I open the wifi app there it is going strong as a network to connect to. What in the F is going on here?

My 75 year old dad lives in a very remote area of Wisconsin and has never had internet, only Dish satellite cable. He has a smartphone with data but no computer so absolutely not tech savvy at all, pretty much just knows his way around his phone. I'm thinking of getting him the Starlink service so he can stream on his smart tv and get rid of the Dish package all together, but I'm kind of wondering if that could end up being a mistake? Like if that transition would be hard for him to learn the ropes of without me around? How often does the network require troubleshooting, a reboot, or software upgrade? Is customer service easily available by phone? If it regularly requires an app I could see him struggling with that. Is he doomed to just overpay for crummy cable service forever?

I’m just needing a hotspot for a month and if i can get a one month trail that would be helpful lol, thank you

I just wanted to share a recent experience ( and apparent solution) re: my Starlink V4 terminal:

Over a year ago, I dumped my WAN internet service and satellite tv system in favor of Starlink v4 terminal and Residential service. Im using Starlink gen 3 router plus 2 Starlink gen 3 mesh nodes. I’ve been getting pretty good performance out of the system, with unobstructed sky. Some lags and dropouts, and the event log was filling up with network interruption alerts, more than 120 per day.

Dropouts reduced slightly when I replaced the wireless backhaul with wired. But the 120+ network interruptions per day persisted.

After opening a ticket with Starlink, they indicated the terminal is detecting excessive RF interference due to microwave ovens, cell equipment or other RF emitters, and suggested I move the terminal.

I was puzzled at first, as the terminal is in the center of my home’s flat roof, and certainly there’s no microwave ovens or cell antennas up there, or even below.

But wait a minute, I had installed the dish on the mast previously used by the satellite tv antenna, and within 5 feet of the dish are several solar panels, with micro inverters.

So as an experiment, I temporarily moved the dish as far as the existing cable would permit; now the closest solar panel is more than 16 feet away.

And now I observe network interruptions averaging less than 1 per hour, when it used to be one every few minutes.

With that, I’ve identified a site even further from the panels, and if these latest results hold, will permanently relocate the dish there.

Just something to keep in mind if you are fighting interference issues.

I was surprised to get a flyer in the post today advertising Starlink in London. Options in the surrounding area include OpenReach FTTP up to 1.6gbit and Nexfibre/Giffgaff 900mbit symmetric for £25. There‘s nothing stopping you having both if you want redundancy/backup.

Following the link on the flyer, the offer is £40/£60/£80 for 100/200/300+ mbit respectively.

Genuinely curious why Starlink are marketing here? Does anyone on this sub have experience using over cheaper wired options?

After some advice on here the other day, I took the plunge and ordered a Starlink Mini for use at events with poor phone signal.

The dish arrived yesterday and I plugged it in for some quick testing in the garden. Speeds were showing around 200mbps down in the Starlink app - amazing and way more than I'll need for my usage. However when I run a speed test on my phone connected directly to the built-in router, I only get 50mbps. That's still plenty and I understand that's rela world, not just testing the speed to Starlink, but now I'm curious why it's so much lower - what speeds do the built-in router support? I also notice that my phone is connected via 2.4ghz, rather than 5ghz. Does the mini not support 5ghz wifi?

The connection link speed shows as 156mbps max between my phone and the Starlink, despite being right next to it in the garden - is this really the limit?

It's a Pixel 9, which supports a lot faster link speeds, so the limitation is not my phone.

So client of mine droppingbcable and picked up Starlink. They ordered the home Max. They chose to buy the hardware and not rent. They got the Mini Kit V5 abd not the older kit. I was not aware of this existing fresh out July 26 and expected them to get the Standard V4 like a client just got 4 months ago. Doing the same thing a max sub.

I am not sure if this latest is the greatest.

I had another post about which mesh to go with Starlink or 3rd party.

Everything I see says the V3 router UTR-232 is better. I am trying to figure out if they should buy the V3 router since they need mesh and place that as the main router and then use the Mini as the mesh node. If even possible ?? or get another Mini router for mesh node. I am not figuring anything out on differences between the antennas in each kit.

The Mini right now is in living room and when in kitchen on opposite end the wifi shows as being about -74 db in 2.4 but it is blinking on and off the analyzer that I am using on my phone. 5GHz is showing -86 db. It is also going in and out on the wifi connection screen.

The old setup was Asus Router with a mesh node and the db from the router was still high but not blinking out. They are not overlapping channels.

Not sorry for saying Starlinks hardware offerings are as confusing as Musk is.

New setup for a client should they go with OEM or 3rd party?

Second I see if using third party I see an instruction says enable Bypass.

Bypass as I am familiar with is bypassing original router and setting it in Gateway and using your own router as well as Mesh APs.

Do we bypass or just disable WiFi on the starlink if 3rd party mesh?

Starlink is useless in urban cities been getting 200kb in the afternoon for months now…instead of prioritising high capacity areas,starlink keeps more selling kits now the internet is dead now